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Tribal Perspective HAZMAT Spills Clearwater River Basin

Tribal Perspective HAZMAT Spills Clearwater River Basin. Kevin Brackney, M.S., P.G. Nez Perce Tribe. Presentation Topics. NPT Environmental Response Historic Spills Clearwater Basin Impacts from both large and small spills

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Tribal Perspective HAZMAT Spills Clearwater River Basin

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  1. Tribal PerspectiveHAZMAT SpillsClearwater River Basin Kevin Brackney, M.S., P.G. Nez Perce Tribe

  2. Presentation Topics • NPT Environmental Response • Historic Spills Clearwater Basin • Impacts from both large and small spills • Change in fish consumption standards and Water Quality needed for higher Consumption • Protection of in-stream spawning and rearing habitat • Proposed cleanup technologies

  3. Hazardous Environmental Response Team - HERT • Support training for Groundwater Program Priorities • Pollution Prevention for UST and Hazardous Waste • Brownfields: Soil and Groundwater Assessment and Cleanup • Hazmat Environmental Response – no medical capability • 3 Funding sources: • Tribe • HMEP Training Grant • Brownfield Tribal Response Grant capacity development

  4. Historic Spills 1991-2012Clearwater River Basin, Idaho

  5. Lochsa River Spills

  6. Knife Edge, MP 108, Nov 20036,300 Gallons Diesel

  7. HERT Response Trailer

  8. Fast Water Oil Spill Response Training 2008

  9. Nez Perce Tribe HERT

  10. 3 Categories of Spills • Large river large volume spills • Small creek, small volume spills • Spills contaminating groundwater The Dose Makes the Poison

  11. Sensitive Receptors • Drinking Water Intakes • Fish Hatcheries and Seasonal Acclimation Sites • Mature free swimming fish • Juvenal Fish • Spawning beds with eggs (Redds) • Pacific lamprey rearing habitat

  12. Middle Fork Clearwater River Spills

  13. Middle Fork Clearwater, MP 84, 10,000 gallons dyed diesel • Natural Resource Damage Assessment • Collect Fish Tissue – Analyze for Petroleum • Collected 100s of samples • Analyzed 7 steelhead filets and whole carcass • Concentrations were similar upstream to downstream of spill • NRDA abandoned

  14. Steelhead PAH ConcentrationsMP-84 Clearwater River Diesel Spill

  15. Clear Ck Diesel Spill 2-10 gal, July 2008 Loader rolls into Ck Diesel sheen on hatchery

  16. Orofino Gasoline Seep 12/31/2011

  17. Orofino Gasoline SeepJanuary 5, 2012

  18. Orofino Gasoline SeepContaminated beach 3/14/2012

  19. Lamprey Ammocoetes

  20. Pacific lamprey passage Bonneville Dam

  21. Larval Pacific lamprey

  22. Elmer Crow, NPT ElderBonneville Dam

  23. Pacific lamprey life cycle

  24. Shoring Post and Panel

  25. In-situ Chemical Oxidation

  26. Conclusions • Location, Location, Location • The sensitive receptor is the aquatic nursery at the interface between surface and groundwater • Water quality needs to improve to support the changing fish consumption standards • Cumulative effects of multiple spills • Effective remediation requires good site assessment and aggressive source removal

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